For well over a year now, oklo.org has languished on Bluehost’s servers. No new posts. No maintenance whatsoever. The PHP installation was so dated that for months, visits to the site received nothing but a cryptic SQL fail. An hour with technical support was sufficient to bring the site back up, but the result was disheartening. The URL was landing hard, with an insecure SSL warning, a creaky WordPress theme that shouted “mid-aughts”, and an alarmingly wanton disrespect for the aspect ratios of the once-carefully embedded images.

New decade. New resolve.

The name on the site header now matches the site URL. Systemic referred to the long-lapsed Systemic Console project which Aaron Wolf and I started in 2004. Later, Stefano Meschiari took over the code base, and developed the software to pearlescent degrees of refinement. Yet the intangibles that generated the thrill in the Doppler velocities have all but faded, now that an essentially Earth-mass planet orbits at an essentially temperate distance from Proxima Centauri, and rumors circulate of a signal of order a GHz rather than a meter per second.